9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes

[Red Arrow]

I am always talking about percentages. 

That is not, as my college professors used to say, intuitively obvious to the most casual observer.

[guido911]

Pay me $380,000 a year to do a job and I'll be laughing all the way to the bank. And I'll still be laughing when the government takes its 31.6%. Different outlook on life, I guess.

And apparently, you completely missed my point. You are trying to claim that simply because you pay more tax than I do in absolute terms that my opinion on the matter is invalid. If that's the case, you get to pay more tax, because one of my clients pays 7 figures most years and he thinks his tax rate should be higher. Of course, he's not you, so his opinion is probably still worthless in your eyes.

You have "clients"? Are you an attorney or something? I cannot remember.

[nathanm]

You have "clients"? Are you an attorney or something? I cannot remember.

I'm no attorney, but I do have clients. Some of them are attorneys, but that doesn't make me an attorney.

I have, on occasion, written clients for clients. How's that for confusing?

[heironymouspasparagus]

Red,
That must have been the TU mantra of the day for many years.  Same one I heard.
Plus LAE.  "Left As Exercise" to the observer.

[Red Arrow]

Red,
That must have been the TU mantra of the day for many years.  Same one I heard.
Plus LAE.  "Left As Exercise" to the observer.

More universal than that... University of Delaware too.

We had "Left as an exercise for the student" rather than for the observer.

[Red Arrow]

I'm no attorney, but I do have clients. Some of them are attorneys, but that doesn't make me an attorney.

You need to stay in a Holiday Inn Express.

[guido911]

You need to stay in a Holiday Inn Express.

And I wasted 50K at TU...

[Red Arrow]

And I wasted 50K at TU...

You left yourself wide open with that comment.   

[heironymouspasparagus]

At times it kind of sounds like it!  (wasting 50k at TU)     I know better,... but sometimes....

TU is an excellent school (I got a large military supplier to pay for mine - no debt at graduation!!!  And yes, they got MORE than their money's worth for what I did there.  You benefited, too, believe it or not!  I helped make this country safe while you were still doing the 6th-grade-crush-on-Ms.-Green thing.)  I liked it better there than any of the other colleges I got degrees from.


Maybe I will have to sign up for law school.  Am looking for that soft, cushy, retirement gig....  so easy a caveman could do it!!?? And I could get rich!!!!!  Patent law looks pretty lucrative right now.  Everyone and his backside-orifice is trying to patent things...

I am soooo ready to be a rich backside-orifice, too!!  (Or would that be too much class envy?)

[Conan71]

At times it kind of sounds like it!  (wasting 50k at TU)     I know better,... but sometimes....

TU is an excellent school (I got a large military supplier to pay for mine - no debt at graduation!!!  And yes, they got MORE than their money's worth for what I did there.  You benefited, too, believe it or not!  I helped make this country safe while you were still doing the 6th-grade-crush-on-Ms.-Green thing.)  I liked it better there than any of the other colleges I got degrees from.


Maybe I will have to sign up for law school.  Am looking for that soft, cushy, retirement gig....  so easy a caveman could do it!!?? And I could get rich!!!!!  Patent law looks pretty lucrative right now.  Everyone and his backside-orifice is trying to patent things...

I am soooo ready to be a rich backside-orifice, too!!  (Or would that be too much class envy?)

Aha! I knew it all along, profiting off the treasury with the MIC and the RWRE's!

[heironymouspasparagus]

Absolutely!!  Every chance I get!!

But on such a smaller scale than most the RWRE, it gets lost in the weeds.  Well, I will just have to keep on trying!

Law school!!  Yeah,...that's it....that's the ticket...  (channeling John Lovett).

[Red Arrow]

Absolutely!!  Every chance I get!!

Be careful, you may get converted!

[heironymouspasparagus]

If I had a couple hundred million, I might just at that!

Probably not.  I would do the Gates and Buffet thing and give it all to some charity.  Maybe endow a building at TU - but they would have to name it after me.

[nathanm]

Probably not.  I would do the Gates and Buffet thing and give it all to some charity.  Maybe endow a building at TU - but they would have to name it after me.

Let me guess..a new dining hall. 

[heironymouspasparagus]

Something related to engineering.  Maybe endow enough chairs so they could FINALLY get a doctoral program for Sparky's!